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LOOKING TO the future, a lot depends on the fortune of the nation and its place in the world.

This ancient fortress has served as arsenal, prison and royal residence, and is comprised of an irregular mass of buildings erected at various periods down the centuries.

This is a great place for a seaside holiday, with golden sand serviced by the growing resort of Newquay, with hotels and boarding houses built literally to the cliff edge.

The River Aire cuts a winding course through broad pastures, stony valleys and bustling industrial areas on its way to join the Ouse and the open sea at Asselby Island.

The houses on the right were often occupied by boot and shoe makers, including John and Thomas Tull, Thomas Albury and George Parsons.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Long-standing local residents do not remember the church tower without its pinnacles, although one pinnacle was struck by lightning and fell down in the early 1990s.

At one stage, there were piers at both St Anne's and its close neighbour, Lytham. The latter's pier, however, was pulled down in 1960.

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.

The growth of Lowestoft in Victorian times was largely down to construction by the civil engineer Samuel Morton Peto, who lived in nearby Somerleyton Hall.

The Simmonds fleet of buses would often work their way up and down Southgate Street.

The large hire-boat companies have taken over many of the small boat-building firms, and Easticks has now become Hoseasons. These sheds burnt down in about 1996.

It is interesting to see the ferry much farther down the pier, indicating the high tidal rise and fall of the river.

Since 1838 Fleetwood had had a theatrical pavilion in Dock Street, and a daily conveyance at Poulton met the Fylde Union coach to and from Fleetwood's new bathing station, but it did not have a pier.

Unsaddled horses are being led down the street. Could they be going to a Tattersalls sale?

The River Avon flows serenely through Ringwood, and not far away is Fridays Cross.

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

'Glorious Goodwood', one of the great advertising slogans, usually lives up to its name, and the racing that takes place here, high on the South Downs and a mile north of Goodwood House, is usually blessed

This old woollen mill was vacant and decaying in 1815 when it was taken over by John Heathcote, a lace manufacturer, who moved here from Leicester after the Luddite riots.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

There is not much traffic—a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger—in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

The rugged nature and scale of the cliffs at Beachy Head, seen here to the east of the lighthouse, is clearly shown in this view.

It is a listed building and is described as '2 storeys, rough cast on brick with thatch roof, the eaves swept down on west side to form veranda with flint and rubble columns'.

A country lane, a straggle of houses and open countryside is all we see as we look down Collier Row Road with the Church of the Ascension on the right.